South Sudan Civil Services Commission Director General for Monitoring and Evaluation said 80 percent of government recruitment was irregular.
Toby Martirio Oduho said a survey the commission carried out revealed that recruitments were not done formally by the public service system and there were no records of appointment documents and personnel files.
He explained that the report on the irregularities moved the public service to establish an electronic payroll system.
Mr Oduho said recruitment system in the country was corrupted with tribalism and nepotism, foreseeing that people might not avoid it completely.
He added that some ministries were dominated by a section of one or two tribes forming 80 percent of the total number of employees.
The director lamented that the commission’s 1,000-pounds annual budget was blocking its functions.
Juba University Teaching Assistant Deng Makur observed that Arabic language remains a barrier to employment of Arabic scholars in the country.
He and Almasier Newspaper Journalist Bushra Hassan Chol called for the establishment of English training centres and proper recruitment system in South Sudan.
The officials were waiting to take part in a forum on Employment: Reality and Ambition that did not take place in Juba on Saturday.